I'll be reading Growing Up with Tamales for story time at Blue Willow Bookshop, in Houston, on Thursday morning, May 15. Tell everyone you know with kids in the Houston area. How do you find and support local indie book stores like Blue Willow? By going to Booksense.
On Saturday, May 17, I'll be in Dallas, reading and signing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, for the 13th Dallas Children’s Book Fair & Literary Festival.
On June 22, here in Houston, I'm going to do a poetry workshop. It's free and open to the public, y'all, and they're having one every Sunday in June, taught by local poets I love and respect. So come on down.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
I want you to notice/ when I'm not around/ I wish I was special/ You're so very special...Was feeling the compulsion to apologize again for sparse posting, but I know it's Spring in more places now, and people flock outdoors in Spring, away from the Internet. So let's neither of us feel bad.
We got the Rock Band game, and it is awesome. My voice is hoarse every night now. I try to play drums when our drummer wants to sing, and I'm getting almost competent at it.
In other family consumerism news: One of my kids is having a birthday, and I think we're gonna buy him a bike. Yay! Bikes for children! Either a bike or Heelies.
In other family activity news: You know what we do all the time here at home? We play badminton. We tear those shuttlecocks up.
Well, that's about it. Lately I go to work and work my brains out. I go to work, and everybody's like, "Check with Fixed Accounts on the makewhole fund distribution annuity 457(b)(c)(d)(g). Call the VPRMGPD and ask for the TPA on the PC and the AC/DC." And then I show up and they say, "Oh, hey, Gwen. We need you to run into that big room over there. Take this print-out, your pen, and a notepad."
And I go, "What, now? Aren't there, like, actuaries in there?"
And they go, "Yeah, but just run in. We'll be right behind you."
And I go, "I don't know. I'm kind of scared."
And they go, "Well, while you're running in, just yell out your name."
I go, "What?"
They go, "Yell out 'GWENDOLY-Y-Y-Y-YN... ZEPE-E-E-EDA!'"
Me: "What?!"
Them: "Like, for instance, if your name was Leroy Jenkins, you'd yell LEE-EE-EE-EEROY... JEN-N-N-NKINS! Get it?"
Me: "Uh... Okay." I push open the door. I start running. "GWENDOLY-Y-Y-YN! ZEPE-E-E-EDA!"
Inside, there are dragons. And dragon eggs. And giant knights in fiery armor. And actuaries! And fund selections! And 401(k)(b)(j)s!!
I pull out my pen and slash away! Fire and numbers get all over me and I die!
But then, like in every other game, I'm resurrected right after that. Again and again.
And I will level up.
I will see this job pwned. 9:35 PM #
Comments:
My vote for the birthday present is the bike. I bought my two nieces and nephew Heelies for Christmas. Two of them quickly lost interest and one of them would get in trouble and have the wheels taken away all the time. But, if you go with the Heelies, try to buy them at a Sports Authority because they are known to give out $20 off coupons for them as well as insurance, which helps because those wheels are expensive to replace.Also, I loved that little story at the end!
# posted by
: 10:49 PM
Love the l33t speak! Too funny.
# posted by
Jud : 10:10 PM
As Maven would say, this post filled my bloghole. I love the review of the new job.
Also, I am so jealous about the badminton and the overall gameplaying at your house. That is my dream, to have a crew who wants to play games with me in the yard.
# posted by
Marigoldie : 8:18 AM
My vote for the bike too as heelies have put my son in a cast for the tendons being damaged due to the angle that the foot has to be..... his heelies were one wheeled heelies and the doc wont let him have them again. Get the bike or inline skates, no heelies is my honest opinion since I had to deal with a bad heelie injury.
Also! Congrats on the rock band! We have that in our house and it is the BEST game made. Enjoy, enjoy enjoy!!
Your job sounds funny, you sound way too smart to even condescend to talk to me in real life and I'm damn impressed!!!
hugs!
# posted by
Pixielyn : 8:39 AM
Yay for bikes! My kids just got new bikes too. And how is the Starbucks and Toby romance going?
# posted by
ShoeGirl : 11:15 AM
Yay bikes! My sister just said I can borrow hers for the summer so now I have a bike!
I think I am also going to start running into conference rooms shouting my name like a baseball anouncer. That sounds awesome.
# posted by
: 1:35 PM
The Leroy Jenkins reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
(skip to 1:25 if you get bored)
Alex Trebec expounds on Leroy Jenkins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJT20WxfHss&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJT20WxfHss&feature=related
# posted by
Gwen : 10:04 PM
Carole: Oh, thanks. Good info.
Jud: ;)
Marigoldie: Just have a bunch of kids, then!
For serious: I always tell people, "Your kids are going to want to do what you do." I would tell y'all that my kids also enjoy critiquing people's outfits at the mall, but then you might get the idea that we're petty, judgmental, and/or evil...
Pixie: OMG. That sucks for your son. But I'm glad you're speaking up, because I did kind of wonder about that -- the constant under-heel pressure.
And, hey -- if you worked at my job, I'd talk to you. I talk to everybody. Except for the light-bulb guy who hangs around the elevators looking at all the women.
Shoegirl: I'm afraid to tell y'all. Somewhere between date rape and c***teasing... hard to say. They're very primal.
Beth: You totally should. And don't tell my kids this, but my bf's gonna get me a bike this summer. So you and I will be bikehood sisters, in spirit.
# posted by
Gwen : 10:12 PM
Definitely the bike - they won't outgrow that nearly as fast and probably won't lose interest as fast.
Your work description is so very much like mine. I'm going to envision dragons and knights and stuff at work from now on instead of the cold reality of auditors, underwriters, attorneys and the like.
# posted by
: 10:37 AM
My daughter wants heelies so bad, but I'm worried about her wiping out while wearing them...
# posted by
JL : 8:48 AM
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